On Dada (Part 1 of 2)
What we seem to have here is a problem of genealogy. At times, Blanchot parses surrealism inflected as dada and […]
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On Dada (Part 1 of 2)
What we seem to have here is a problem of genealogy. At times, Blanchot parses surrealism inflected as dada and […]
The Mountain and the Wall (Book Review)
My literary education includes many of the great twentieth-century novelists of world literature, such as Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel […]
Unmentionables
“Beauty is just as vapid as its distinctions.” The recent translation of Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, translated by Emma Ramadan and […]
Two Lost Projects
Resistances: The Problem of Fascism Walter Benjamin on fascism George Bataille on fascism Emmanuel Lévinas on fascism Jan Patočka on […]
Life is a Cabaret
I’ve been a fan of Brendan Nash’s blog and I’ve been following him on Twitter since this past summer. When I […]
Tyranny of the Text
WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that […]
An Excerpt from the Utterly Brilliant Book I’m Writing on Autographesis, the As If, and Blanchovian Phenomenology
For art to be truly free to achieve its goal of total freedom and to escape the normative exigencies that […]
